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November 15, 2016Comments Off on Judge resolves battle over historic presidential yacht

DOVER, Del. (AP) An investment group with ties to a wealthy industrialist family in India can take ownership of the former U.S. presidential yacht Sequoia with no payment to its current owner, a Delaware judge ruled Monday. Vice Chancellor Sam ...

November 14, 2016Comments Off on Arizona marijuana business leads to lawyer’s suspension

A Virginia-licensed lawyer whose Arizona practice included work in the medical marijuana industry has been suspended for a year in both states amid allegations of conflicts of interest and self-dealing. The charges describe a tangled chain of business activity arising ...

November 11, 2016Comments Off on Execution date sought for man convicted in family’s slaying

(AP) The state attorney general’s office is seeking a January execution date for a man convicted of killing a family of four. Media outlets report that the attorney general’s office wrote Richmond Circuit Judge Beverly Snukals on Thursday, saying she ...

November 11, 2016Comments Off on Lawyer suspended 9 months for hit-and-run conviction

A lawyer ordered to defend his law license after a felony hit-and-run conviction has been suspended for nine months. Wright H. Lewis of Potomac Falls was involved in a 2014 accident involving injury in Fairfax County, according to court records. ...

November 10, 2016Comments Off on Lawyers fend off litigation abuse claim

Lawyers who represented Fluvanna County in an ill-fated bid to recoup losses from a high school bond issue have avoided liability in a backlash lawsuit filed by Davenport & Co. LLC. The Richmond investment firm contended it was a victim ...

Roanoke Valley circuit judges wasted no time naming a replacement for retiring General District Judge Vincent A. Lilley this week. With an eye on possible budget cuts at the General Assembly, the judges appointed Roanoke lawyer Scott R. Geddes to ...

Alexandria bankruptcy lawyer Klinette H. Kindred has been named as a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge. Judges of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals selected Kindred to fill the vacancy created by the coming retirement of Judge Robert G. Mayer ...

November 9, 2016Comments Off on Grandmother gets 12 years in murder-for-hire plot

CULPEPER (AP) A Culpeper County grandmother will serve 12 years in state prison for putting a hit on relatives after losing custody of her grandson. Circuit Judge Richard Potter on Monday sentenced 45-year-old Tammy Smith Kelly of Stevensburg. She pleaded ...